"No! No! No!" What an important word to say to a child! What a wonderful
sound common to two important words of opposite meaning but of a common ancestry:
Noble and ignorant. What a wonderful pun for the truths behind a justified
"No"--"Know!"

Noble is derived from "to know," for those who know the important
things are noble in behavior. Oppositely, some choose to not know,
that is, to be ignorant. Are igknowant people noble or ignoble?

Ignorant people can be classified in different ways like the thousands of
christian denominations recognized by the US Internal Revenue Service. Despite
the different classifications, the sects share certain things in common.
The same with igknowramuses.

Igknowrant people are one class of people who do not do the right thing,
that is, solve problems to make wrongs
right. Reasons why people don't
do
right are

Stupid--lacking the raw intellect sufficient to recognize the problems (morons)

Naive--lacking the learning to recognize the problems (uneducated)

Igknowant--choosing to not know or acknowledge the problem (most people)

Deceitful--knowing but choosing not to solve the problem (politicians,
economists, moneytheists, petrophiliacs, etc.)

One thing all igknowant people possess is that they are ugly humans. They
chose to embrace beautiful lies instead of ugly truths. Ironically, ugly
people are ugly because they avoid ugly truths. Like the politician kicking
the can down the road, ugly people kick the truth down the road to avoid
confronting it. However, igknowance is bliss ... only until the igknowed
problems blitz your life.

Igknowant people are idiots for one simple reason, etymology. From Greek,
a idiot is a person who has private,
not general or universal values and views, that is, they igknow learning.

How does one cease to be igknowant?
Question onesself.
Learn to recognize the cognitive dissonance or discord when one is lying
to onesself. Sort of like learning to recognize a strange noise in your car
engine as a sign of a growing problem. Sense the boundary of uncomfortablness
which trips you into self-defense of indefensible views or values. Laugh
at your foibles when you realize them. Unknowingly defending a lie is bad
but not as bad as defending a lie you know to be a lie. The latter is the
mud from which hypocrisy and deceit are grown.

The following is a list of ugly people who chose to igknow questioning life
so as to learn more about life. Collectively, they are why the
primary moral
imperative of saving life on earth will not happen.

(Personal note: Because of a functional hearing deficit that became a
speech impediment
had no problem with igknowance, igknowamus, etc., because at one time he
gave Elmer Fudd a run for his money. To wit, "the liddle wed wabbit went
wunning acwoss the wailwoad twack.")

Afterthoughts:

Common to the above human short-comings are laziness, fear and insecurity.

Laziness: To question is to take time away from play. To question requires
work. Like all work, it is often unpleasant and unfun. However, work solves
problems. Working to find one's self-lies, one discovers the ugly truths
that are the ugly ducklings of honest, beautiful truths.

Fear: Igknowance is bliss. To seek knowledge is to approach doors behind
which might be the boogeymen of one's infancy.

Insecurity: To question so as to know is risk one's mental security in having
been an honest person with oneself. Once one crosses the threshold of admitting
one has been a self-liar--regardless of the lie's source--one is confronted
with the possibility that all of one's life is a lie. Better a
grosse luge that blinds
onesself to all the self-lies, a grosse luge that trumps all reason,
truths and questions.

In
Kill Your Mother,
the issue of mental repression is reviewed from a personal experience of
this writer. As a metaphor, it symbolizes how the ugly igknowramuses cannot
universally embrace the truths they sense. The moths of their minds are attracted
to the light of a burning candle until the heat of honesty drives them away.

Miracles and faith go
hand-in-hand. The more one knows, the more one knows that so-called miracles
are instances of probability based on logical, objective and quantifiable
facts. For instance, many primitive people believed (and do believe) that
the sun rises rather than the earth rotates. The igknowant, the more miracles
and the more faith. A constant question igknowed by miracle believers is
why an all-knowing, all-powerful God would waste hours and sweat to perform
a miracle when he could have in a few seconds with less effort prevented
the miracle. Consider how God could have alterred the geeses' flying into
Capt. Sully's plane engines which was trumpeted as the "Miracle on the Hudson."
Hell, I've scared hundreds of geese away from shitting on my grass by simply
yelling. And, I'm no God. At this point, many evilistic funny mentalists
will say the following: "You don't get it. Afterall, God sacrificed his
son for humanity ([another
humanocentroselfish concoction].
His willingness to waste greater time and effort for humanity to allow and
then clean up a disaster is an example of his greatness. These are miracles
we mere mortals cannot hope to understand. God works in mysterious, miraculous
ways. Amen." Miracles are of, by and for the faithful.

120219: Religious people are igknowant

Nobel Lauretes, less than 1%

Members of Academy of Science, less than 5%

Agnostics/Atheist know twice as much about religion as believers, thus,

The truth will set you free.

120402 In praise of being igknowant: Igknowant people are always right because
part of being igknowant is never disagreeing with what another igknowant
person says. Thus, an igknowant person is never contradicted. If they are
contradicted, they know they have met a person who should be igknowed especially
if they make reference to science, e.g., facts, data, and research.